arXiv:hep-ph/9411380·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Dynamics of Cosmological Phase Transitions: What Can We Learn from Condensed Matter Physics?
Nigel Goldenfeld (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)🇺🇸
Abstract
A brief outline is given of the description of phase transition kinetics in condensed matter systems with a continuous symmetry, emphasising the roles of dissipation, coarse-graining and scaling. The possible relevance of these ideas to the early universe is explored in the contexts of the GUT string transition and the electroweak transition.
Comments: 12 pages, Latex, no figures